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Updated: June 28, 2025


Here are the facts: The body of a young girl was found early in the morning, stranded on the river-bank in the slime and reeds of the Seine. Men employed in dredging sand saw it as they were getting into their frail boat on their way to their work. "Tiens! fifty francs earned!" said one of them. "True," said the other. They approached the body. "A handsome girl!

"And you a Scot!" "I'm a Yankee; and I'm through." "With the stuff?" "Absolutely." "Oh, very well. But a Yankee laird tiens c'est assez drole!" He smacked his lips over the smoky draught, set the half-empty glass on the deep sill. Then he began breezily: "Well, Seventy-six, what's all this I hear about your misfortunes?" "What do you hear?" inquired McKay guilelessly. The other man laughed.

"And who should be, mon petite chou, if not thou?" returned the old woman with conviction. "Of course they love thee! Mais bien sur! Doest thou not dance for them as none else can dance and give them angel visions that they could not imagine for themselves?" She paused. Then thrusting her hand suddenly into the pocket of her apron and producing a card: "Tiens! I forgot! Monsieur Davilof waits.

Now the bottle is all warmed. Try some." "What is your father?" said the little man suddenly to Fanny. "He is in the army." "You have no brother no one to take care of you?" "You mean, because I come out here? But in England they don't mind; they think it interesting for us." "Tiens!" They obviously did not believe her, and turned to other subjects.

She makes little excuses to go over to Havre, just for this to be carried in the arms like an infant. You should hear her, she shouts and claps her hands! All the beach assembles to see her land. When she is wet she cries for joy. It is so difficult to amuse one's self, it appears, in the great world." "But, tiens, here we are, I feel the dry sands."

On an occasion, just after the funeral, for which Ben Flint paid, when Madame was mothering the tiny Andrew in her arms, and Ben stood staring, lost in yearning for the lost and beloved pig, she glanced up and said: "Tiens, why should he not replace Bob, ce petit cochon?" Ben Flint slapped his thigh. "By Gum!" said he, and the thing was done.

These claims " Constance, in a morning gown, here came out of her daughter's bedroom, where she had been dressing; her first glance cut short Cesar's eloquence just as he was about to formulate in flowing phrase, though modestly, the tale of his merits. "Tiens, Mimi, this is Monsieur de Grindot, a young man distinguished in his own sphere of life, and the possessor of a great talent.

Her black bulk, solid, unreduced by the frightful crossing, climbed into the brougham. "And you, mon cher?" "My father's dying," said Soames between his teeth. "I'm going up. Give my love to Annette." "Tiens!" murmured Madame Lamotte; "quel malheur!" Soames took his hat off, and moved towards his train. 'The French! he thought.

"Peter the Lucky?" he queried. She nodded dejectedly. The little official made a grimace. "It was he," he said, "who did the throat-cutting. Tiens! this begins to be a drama." The girl, with drooping head, made a faint moan of protest and misery. Rufin signed the little man to be silent. The truth, if he had but given it entertainment, had offered itself to him from the first.

Bruce hung on her words and was open-mouthed while she spoke, so impressed was he at her wonderful cleverness, and at her evident success with his friends. Later on Landi, sitting in the ingle-nook with Edith, said, as he puffed a cigar: 'Tiens, ma chere Edith, tu ne vois pas quelque chose? 'What?

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